Re: On Boost and modules

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-08 23:14:01

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:03 PM Stephan T. Lavavej via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> For reasons that I completely do not understand with my cat-sized brain that is barely able to print "3.14", I believe that only MSVC has chosen the strong ownership strategy, while Clang and GCC have chosen "weak ownership" (which is perhaps easier to understand - with that strategy, details::make_noise() isn't specially affected by whether it appears in module Cats or module Dogs, so you get the same kind of ODR violation that classic headers would produce). Apparently compiler devs feel really strongly about both sides of this issue and I don't know why.

It's my understanding that both clang and gcc are moving, or have
moved, to strong ownership also.

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